You really oughta round up some canned soup and/or tuna and other nonperishable food items and haul them down to Radio-Active Records at the Gateway Center in Fort Lauderdale. This Saturday, November 20, from 6 until 10 p.m., the shop is hosting a Thanksgiving Food Drive. That seems too early…
For some, eating Thanksgiving at a restaurant might seem weird. But since when is it un-American to have someone else cook your meal, serve it to you, and clean up everything when you’re done with your third helping? There’s absolutely nothing wrong with Thanksgiving out on the town every once…
Up in the 561, Thanksgivings are never terribly traditional. There’s never any snow or color-changing leaves, just oven doors opening and closing like mailboxes all day long, for the bastings. Itching to get out of the house and have someone else worry about the temperature and time, the stuffing, the…
Here’s the rest of our interview with Greg Rice, local legend and Grand Wine Meister of tonight’s Lake Worth Food & Wine Experience. Part One ran yesterday. How long have you been hosting the event, and how did it all come about?I did it last year, the year before… it’s…
Greg Rice is one of South Florida’s most recognizable personalities. The self-made millionaire and his twin brother, John, overcame tremendous adversity in their lives and in the process, became Palm Beach County legends. Though best-known as the pint-sized pitchman for Hulett Environmental Services — the exterminators who had the foresight…
Elsewhere on this blog, the ever-erudite eating machine John Linn proclaimed the Ambry German Restaurant his very favorite place to eat German food and drink German beer. It sure is a cool-looking place (who hasn’t driven past it a million times?), and it has a dizzying array of food from…
Even though Built to Spill’s Doug Martsch sounds proud of his band’s newest album, There Is No Enemy, he’s aware of its typical critical appraisal. “First good record they’ve made since the 1990s,” he mockingly spits in a dumbass drawl. That isn’t altogether true. Still, there’s not much doubt among…
rapoportsrg.comRapoportIf you remember Busch’s under the (Atlantic Avenue) bridge in Delray Beach, you know it was tough to find but worth the search. The massive waterfront restaurant is undergoing a complete transformation courtesy of local dining guru Burt Rapoport, who’s set to unveil his newest venture, Deck 84, in just…
Seeing as how gubernatorial candidates must now participate in Masskrugstemmen contests to prove their viability, this weekend’s Oktoberfest may just prove to be a crucial turning point in Florida’s heated governor’s race.When Wisconsin Republican Mark Neumann won a regional title last month (Masskrugstemmen is a German test of strength in…
So, you’re too stoned/lazy to muster the energy to actually leave the couch. You’ fail to shop regularly, leaving nothing in the fridge but a shaved carrot, a sad little package of walnuts, and some lettuce that was wilted over a week ago. You know exactly what you’re doing (again):…
The brutality of summer has slackened a bit. Still, if you’re outside for any length of time, you’re a sweaty, clammy mess. The only cure is shade and water, but an ice cream cone can help lower that core temperature from Chernobyl levels to something more manageable.This Saturday, Oct 2,…
You know Sara Lee, right? Purveyor of tasty cakes that you find in your grocer’s freezer? Well, now she wants to be known for her deli meat. Sara Lee’s offering 18 varieties of sliced deli meat (chicken, beef, ham turkey) by the tubload (those little plastic resealable tubs) and ten more choices…
Jodi Swank, from Swank Specialty Produce up in Loxahatchee, has concocted some tasty and healthy combinations from the hyrdo-farm she operates with her husband, Darrin. (Read our interview with him here.) All those leafy greens they grow come together for some pretty unique recipes, which she shares with us this…
courtesy Swank Farms Based in Loxahatchee Groves, Swank Specialty Produce is a large-scale hydroponic farm that has become regionally famous for the impeccable quality of the veggies grown there. Swank is a family affair: Darrin and Jodi had been married for years when they decided a soilless farm was in…
Need hints? This place has been in the same family for a long time. It’s a friendly place. There are kitty cats nearby. These guess-where-we-ares have been way too easy lately. This one may be too. But for the first reader to guess the correct location, we’ve got a copy of…
5. Joe’s Cafe, Fort LauderdaleThis is the second coming of the late, lamented Joe Bel-Aire’s, a late-night haunt that used to be the first neon sign you’d see when you left Port Everglades. Almost a decade ago, the legendary structure was leveled to make way for another Walgreens. If you…
Some kids probably hate it when summer comes to an end and homework season rears its head like Putin visiting Alaska.But we’d bet the kids over at Shepherd of the Coast in northeast Fort Lauderdale don’t feel quite as deprived of fun. They’ve put together a big community garden, growing…
Now, you’ve had a good sandwich in your day. Here in Fort Lauderdale, LaSpada’s and My Market and Deli make some of the finest. But regular folks can become sandwich artisans too. If you’ve ever created a kitchen-sink concoction you’re proud of, you could be a winner.A company based in…
You know, Mondays suck so hard. They come at the worst time — always at the tail-end of a whirlwind weekend where you enjoyed a leisurely kayak trip in the Keys (or whatever). Ninety-nine percent of the time, there’s some kind of hideous “work” attached to them, like a piece…
Vegas-born, L.A.-based Crystal Method always got pegged as a stateside answer to the Chemical Brothers. If that’s the case, it took the duo more than a decade to duplicate the Brothers’ formula: massively danceable, drugged-out epiphanies with loads of “very special guests.” When Crystal Method started out in 1994, the…
Every once in a while, officials from the Hotel and Restaurant division of the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation office get to sleuthin’. They’re looking for “food misrepresentation cases” — usually restaurants selling you one thing but serving you another.Inspectors catch the bait and switch about 50 times…
Calling up an escort is supposed to usher in an hour or two (or, hell, 20 minutes) of pleasure and release. It’s not supposed to cause headaches. Sometimes instead of getting a happy ending, you feel chafed — and not in a good way. Or at least those are some…
